Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams - People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more - provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.
The Role We are looking for proactive builders to develop agentic AI products for Square and Cash App. Your role is to move beyond passive chatbots and build systems that take autonomous action to solve problems for our merchants and customers.
We want engineers who are obsessed with applying machine learning to the real world rather than theoretical research. You will own the full lifecycle of products, from the first line of code to strategic impact. Your goal is to deliver immediate, tangible value to small businesses and individual consumers through intelligent proactive automation.
You will partner across Block to deliver highly visible solutions, identifying new possibilities for agentic workflows and driving product direction. As a lead in this space, you will stay at the forefront of AI advancements to ensure our products remain innovative, effective, and reliable. To scale the quality of these experiences, you will implement reinforcement learning systems to refine agent behavior using state-of-the-art techniques.
This is a unique opportunity to become a leading expert in AI at Block. You'll work on projects that transform the way we build products and serve our customers. We welcome individuals who are passionate about building for the real world, embracing pragmatic approaches, and seeing challenges from fresh, nontraditional viewpoints.
You Will - Partner across Block to identify new agentic workflows and drive product direction, staying at the forefront of AI advancements to ensure our solutions remain effective and innovative.
- Build and deploy production-ready, LLM-powered systems including autonomous agents and tool-use capabilities working directly with foundation model APIs.
- Design rigorous evaluation frameworks and custom metrics from scratch to diagnose system performance and ensure agentic products work reliably for Square merchants and Cash App customers.
- Apply a solid grasp of concepts like overfitting, generalization, and data quality to reason about model behavior and identify the right technical levers to pull when a system underperforms.
- Build automated feedback pipelines and reward models to scale the quality of our experiences, implementing state-of-the-art reinforcement learning techniques to refine agent behavior over time.
- Own the full product lifecycle by contributing across the stack-from backend APIs and data pipelines to frontend integration-to deliver immediate, proactive value to our users.
You Have - 12+ years of experience in training and deploying ML models, developing ML software, and shipping customer-facing ML products.
- Deep understanding of modern ML techniques (e.g. Large Language Models) and the ML lifecycle from data gathering, training, model evaluation, MLOps, and productionizing models.
- Ruthless pragmatism when solving new and unconventional problems
- A desire to understand our clients' needs in order to design tools and systems that solve our customer's problems. As a platform team, our main customers are internal developers and products.
- Ability to produce production-quality code and services incorporating testing, evaluation, monitoring as well as the ability to quickly adapt to a new domain, hack MVP's, and iterate to improve product.
- Experience using any of the major cloud vendors for high scale production use cases
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
We're working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible.
Want to learn more about what we're doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page .
While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.
Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
To find a location's zone designation, please refer to this resource . If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
Zone A:
$276,800 - $415,200 USD
Zone B:
$276,800 - $415,200 USD
Zone C:
$276,800 - $415,200 USD
Zone D:
$276,800 - $415,200 USD
Application Guidelines Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.
Use of AI in Our Hiring Process We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws.
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Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. Check out our other benefits at Block.
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